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Former State Treasurer of Oklahoma Scott Meacham will deliver East Central University’s Leonard Limes Lecture at noon Thursday, Oct. 22, in Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

The dinner and lecture, being held in conjunction with the Tiger Tank Pitch competition, will begin at noon. Lunch is $12 per person and those interested in attending should RSVP by Friday, Oct. 9. The Tiger Tank competition will also take place from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 22.

Deaver, a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the country and internationally. Like Deaver, O’Boyle, is an instructor at TU and is concert-master of the Tulsa Opera Orchestra and of the Signature Symphony at Tulsa Community College. She has performed with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad.

Key alumni, community leaders, faculty, former faculty and friends gathered together Thursday, Oct. 1, for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand reopening of the Education Building on the East Central University campus.

Shakespeare lovers and haters alike can experience laughter as the East Central University Theatre Department launches its first production of the 2015-16 Fine Arts Season with “The Compleat Works of WLLM SHKSPR (abridged) [revised],” Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 8-10, in the Chalmers Herman Theatre inside the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Four performances are scheduled with three nightly shows at 7:30 p.m. and a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. There is a language advisory for the performances.

East Central University’s Tiger Speech and Debate Team brings a live parliamentary debate, featuring the National British Debate Team, to the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. in the ECU Foundation Hall.

The debate is free and open to the public.

In addition to the debate, a workshop will be held the same day from 2-4 p.m. in Room 103 of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

The East Central University College of Education and Psychology will celebrate the opening of its remodeled building with a formal dedication, ribbon-cutting and tours, beginning at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1.

The dedication, followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony, will take place next door in the atrium of the Linscheid Library at 4 p.m. Tours of the remodeled facility will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Veterans now have the opportunities and tools to achieve a higher-education degree at East Central University, thanks to a $1.1 million ($220,000 per year) Veterans Student Support Services Grant through the U.S. Department of Education.

The TRIO grant, set up for an initial five-year run, led to the establishment of the Veterans Student Support Services Office on campus, Sept. 1. Jill Williamson is the interim director and Clint Fisher is the program coordinator.

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